Erudite

This is a simple word game, inspired by daily NYT games, specially Wordle.

I'm developing this game for some reasons:

1. improve my vocabulary;
2. practice some javascript/typescript (specially interested in the promising deno runtime);
3. Having fun.

How to play

You have to figure out what is the word based on the definition presented.

If you make an incorrect guess, any correct letter will be highlighted in green in the UI.

Desktop version allows you to use keyboard shortcuts for all actions:

1. simply type the word with your keyboard (or use the keyboard in the UI);
2. delete a letter by pressing Backspace (or press the button delete);
3. check if word is correct by pressing Enter (or press the button check);
4. reveal solution when you don't know the answer by pressing Shift (or press the button reveal);
5. pick another word/definition by pressing Esc (or press the button next).

Currently, every correct attempt gives 100 points. For now, you don't lose point, you can only increase your score.

Demo

Go to https://erudite-demo.deno.dev

Dataset

The list of words is a subset of https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/sgb-words.txt.

The definitions come from wordnet through nltk.

Contributions/collaborations

This is a work in progress.

Any suggestions and collaborations are welcome!

Let's get in touch!